Acknowledgements

It would have been impossible for me to gather all this information without the help of all those people, some near, others in places all over the world. Some are Stabat Mater fanatics like me, others have just taken an interest and were kind enough to help with some piece of information, or by buying a CD for me in their country. I want to thank them all by listing them here in alphabetical order. I trust that everyone will understand that I make one exception for a very special thank you: Hannie, my wife and friend, who started the whole thing and never stops trying to find ways to make this site better and more interesting.

Thanks to :

Willem Abma for sending me his Frisian translation and allowing me to publish it on my site

Luís Ançã who not only bought a CD for me in Portugal, but even sent it to me for free, not once, but several times!

Peter Anseeuw for supplying names of a lot of composers

Bertie Arinson for supplying me with a Hebrew translation

Dr.Hans van den Berg who not only bought two CD’s for me in Bolivia, but even sent them to me for free!

Janusz Bogdan, for corrections of typing errors in Spanish and Polish texts

Doris Caruana of Malta, who kindly bought a CD with music by Maltese composers for me, and sent it to me for free!

William Copper for sending me the score of his Stabat Mater and an organ transcription of the work on CDR.

Joost Cornet, my friend and bridgepartner, for giving me a very special recording of the Gouvy Stabat Mater

Tom Dawkes for his corrections of the Irish Gaelic translation.

Michael Dölker, for sending me copies with translations of the texts Stabat Mater Dolorosa and Stabat Mater Speciosa from the CD booklet Christus – Oratorio of Franz Liszt. He found many composers I did not know yet.

Arjan van Dijk for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater

Robert Faltin and his mother Rachel for buying for me a recording of the Donceanu Stabat Mater in Switzerland

Hans Festen for supplying names of a lot of composers

Federico Gómez Figueroa, who not only gave me the CD of Pedro Rabassa, but who came in person to my house to present it to me (from Spain!), and who allowed me to make a copy of the Carcoler CD.

Aaron Garber for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater

Pavel Gavrilyuk for supplying me with a Russian translation

Jack Hennessey for supplying me with an Irish Gaelic translation

Klaas de Jong for making a translation into Dutch of several Italian texts from inserts

Philippe Joukes for drawing my attention to some new CD’s

Csaba Kapitany for supplying me with Hungarian translations

Ivo Kylar for supplying me with a Czech translation

Pär Larson for supplying me with an Italian translation

Thomas Oboe Lee for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater

Paul Linder who sent me a translation into french of a large part of my site

Ragnhild E. Bye Lütken for supplying me with a Norwegian translation

Mr. Hubert Maillard for sending me as a present the CD with the Stabat Mater by David Haladjian and many other songs by the Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia

The Matsushita Choir, Osaka for sending me their CD with the recording of the Stabat Mater by Javier Busto

Lisette van Meurs for making a translation into Dutch of the Spanish texts of the Gorriti and Ledesma CD’s

Andrea Montello for supplying me with a Slowakian translation

Agnus Moulij for supplying me with an Hebrew translation

Franco Nava for making copies of some hard-to-get CD’s and sending to me for free!

Timo Nuoranne, conductor of the Elisabeth Singers, Hiroshima, for sending me their CD with the recording of the Stabat Mater by Bengt Johansson

Fr.Ricardo Dias Neto for supplying me with a Portuguese translation

Willi Oeschger, administrative manager of the Choir of the Kantonsschule Wiedikon, who send me their recording of the Maggini Stabat Mater for free!

Anita van Ommeren for helping me with the meaning of the Latin text

Luis de Orueta for supplying names of another 25 composers

Jan Pivoňka for his corrections concerning the Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba and his Stabat Mater. He was very helpful in analysing the different sections and stanzas of the piece so I could make a colourbar. He also sent me a CD with the Stabat Mater by RobertHejnar, for free.

Tadeusz Piotrowski for supplying me with another Polish translation

Leo Rademakers who has been a great aid in helping purchase CD’s

Antônio Rodrigues who not only bought two CD’s for me in Brazil, but then send them to me for free!

Arie Romein for letting me copy some translations by Dutch poets from his site

Orlando Romulo Sanchez for sending me a CD with Stabat Mater by Pergolesi for piano solo, played by Marie-Luise Hinrichs.

Brian Schober for sending me the score of his Stabat Mater and a free CD of the work

Harry Spelt for sending me a CDR with the recording of a Stabat Mater by Tommaso Traetta

Tommie Terkelsen of Bergen, Norway for giving me a CDR with the recording of the Stabat Mater by Trond Kverno

Daniel Tilley for sending me a CDR with the recording of a Stabat Mater by Györgi Orbán

Fré Thissen for sending me a CDR with the recording of the Stabat Mater of Bertha Frensel Wegener – Koopman, a copy of three Stabat Maters: Wüllner, Fux and Tucapsky and a copy of six Stabats: Vellard, Gorczycky, Olive, MacDowall, Aichinger and Zotto

Rita Varonen, conductor of the Cantovinum choir, Finland, for sending me their CD with the recording of the Stabat Mater compositions by Sami Klemola, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Erkki Raiski

Ignace Verberk, our friend, who from the beginning has taken an interest in the collection and who searches wherever he goes, and brings home Stabat Mater compositions again and again.

Florence Vilen for sending me a rhyming Swedish translation

Stefan Welkovic who not only bought a CD for me in Brazil, but then send it to me for free!

Michael Wolpe for sending me a CD with the recording of his Stabat Mater

Omar Yagoubi for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater

Alain Zalmanski for sending me a CD of a breton Stabat Mater and some scores

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